Daily at St Catherine’s Church:

Tea/coffee and welshcake between 11.30am and 5.30pm

Activities for children and a cold drink and biscuits

Daily worship at 1.00pm (Monday to Saturday)

Simultaneous translation from Welsh to English between 1.00pm and 2.00pm

Quiet corner and a place to meditate

An opportunity to help Christian Aid campaign on poverty and justice

Request to sign a climate change postcard to your Member of Parliament

The Salvation Army’s ‘Bible in wool’ exhibition

Shell pilgrimage from the Eisteddfod field to the Church

A display of 7 flower arrangements

An opportunity to admire 6 stained glass windows tracing the history of Christianity in Wales

A selection of Christian books and resources for sale

Mobile phone charging service

Exhibitions by the Christian denominations in Wales and also:

Cytûn

Bible Society

Christian Aid

Sunday Schools Council

Home for Good

A Rocha Eco Church Scheme

Embrace the Middle East

The Salvation Army

Fellowship of Reconciliation

Cardiff Baptist College

St Padarn’s Institute

Good News for Everyone

Interfaith Council for Wales

Mothers’ Union – ‘Behind closed doors’

National Churches Trust

St David’s Adoption Service

Flower Displays – 7 installations organised by:

Bible Society

St David’s Uniting Church

St Catherine’s Church – Easter Garden

The Salvation Army

Temple Baptist Church

Mothers’ Union

Inter Faith Council for Wales

Saturday 03/08/24

Refreshments 11.30am – 5.30pm

Kitchen managed by Tim and Helen Williams

Volunteers: Peggy Howells, Richard and Felicity, Carwyn and Alicia Arthur

St Catherine’s Church, 1.00 meditation and talk by Cynan Llwyd, Cytun’s new General Secretary.

Encore Pavilion, 2.15pm: Cân i godi calon, session with Siân Meinir, Elain Rhys and Friends of Dementia Rhondda Cynon Tâf

Y Babell Lên (Literary Pavilion), 3.00pm: Mae Sŵn yr ymladd yn ein clyw, organized by Fellowship of Reconciliation

YMa, 3.00pm: Gaeaf yn troi’n haf, a play by Revd Denzil John

Sunday 04/08/24

Refreshments 12.15pm – 5.30pm

Kitchen managed by Tim and Helen Williams

Volunteers: Richard and Felicity, Jennie Hurd

Pavilion, 9.00am: Eisteddfod Service, led by Geraint Rees and others. Note that an Eisteddfod admission ticket is required to attend the service

St Catherine’s Church, 11.00am: Sunday Service

Encore Pavilion, 1.00pm: Mawl y Cymoedd, a chance to hear local hymns in the company of C.O.R. Quartet.

Pavilion, 8.00pm: Cymanfa Ganu / Hymn Singing, Conductor Wil Morus Jones, Organist Jeffrey Howard, Opening worship led by Rosa Hunt

Monday 05/08/24

Kitchen managed by Tim and Helen Williams

Volunteers: Tabernacl, Efail Isaf (Eleri Haf)

St Catherine’s Church, 1.00pm: Worship led by Anchor Grangetown (Cynan Llwyd)

St Catherine’s Church 1.30pm: Book launch for Byw’r Weddi, adapted by Gwilym Wyn Roberts from Trystan Owain Hughes’ book

St Catherine’s Church, 2.00pm: Recital by Sioned Webb and Salih Hassan

Pavilion, 3.25pm: Launch of the R Alun Evans Memorial Award

Pabell Cymdeithasau 1 (Societies Pavilion 1), 4.00pm: Who are the Quakers? From yesterday to today.

Tuesday 06/08/24

Kitchen managed by Tim and Helen Williams

Volunteers: Mothers’ Union (Helen Williams)

St Catherine’s Church, 1.00pm: Worship led by the Baptists (Rosa Hunt)

St Catherine’s Church, 1.30pm: Gobaith magazine launch, hosted by Good News for Everyone

St Catherine’s Church, 1.45pm – a presentation on the inter-denominational magazine Cristion by Sian Elin, one of the new editors

Y Babell Lên (Literary Pavilion), 12.30pm: Ar Drywydd Brynley Roberts, with Gwerfyl Pierce Jones, Robert Rhys and Rhidian Griffiths

Maes D, 2.30pm: Dwylo dros y môr, talk by Rosa Hunt (Malta) and others

Pabell Cymdeithasau 1 (Societies Pavilion 1), 11.00am: Crefydd ac Ysbrydolrwydd yng ngwaith Emrys ap Iwan, lecture by Professor D Densil Morgan

Pabell Cymdeithasau 1 (Societies Pavilion 1), 2.00pm: Ffynhonnau Morgannwg, talk by Howard Huws

Pabell Cymdeithasau 2 (Societies Pavilion 2), 12.30pm, Canrif o Hawliau Plant – Achub y Plant, talk by Eurgain Haf

Wednesday 07/08/24

Kitchen managed by Tim and Helen Williams

Volunteers: St Catherine’s Pontypridd and Diocese of Llandaff (Charlotte Rushton)

St Catherine’s Church – Holy Communion Service, under the care of the Bishop of Llandaff, Mary Stallard and others

St Catherine’s Church, 1.00pm: Worship hosted by Sound of Wales and the Presbyterian Church of Wales

St Catherine’s Church, 1.30pm: Launch of Gair Duw ar Lafar Gwlad, by Dewi Arwel Hughes

St Catherine’s Church, 1.45pm: Launch of Llyfr Lliwio Beibl Bach Stori Duw, with a story for children

St Catherine’s Church, 2.00pm: Big Question Session, sponsored by St Padarn’s Institute and Cardiff Baptist College. What would you ask God? I would ask…

Pabell Cymdeithasau 1 (Societies Pavilion 1), 12.00pm: Is there peace? A session hosted by Cymdeithas y Cymod (Fellowship of Reconciliation)

Pabell Cymdeithasau 1 (Societies Pavilion 1), 5.00pm: Remembering Richard Price, Apostle of Freedom, Professor Huw Williams

Pabell Cymdeithasau 2 (Societies Pavilion 2), 10.30am, Caniadaeth y Cysegr at 75, presentation by Cymdeithas Emynau Cymru

Pabell Cymdeithasau 2 (Societies Pavilion 2), 1.30pm Talk about R S Thomas, by Jon Gower, Clare Potter, and M Wynn Thomas

Pontypridd Temple Baptist Church, 7.00pm: A night to remember the special contribution of Dewi Arwel Hughes and to launch his book Gair Duw ar Lafar Gwlad, edited by Christine James and E Wyn James

Thursday 08/08/24

Kitchen managed by Tim and Helen Williams

Volunteers: Salvation Army (Kathryn Stowers)

St Catherine’s Church, 1.00pm: Worship hosted by the Salvation Army

St Catherine’s Church, 1.30pm: Claiming Peace, talk

St Catherine’s Church, 1.45pm: Penrhys Pilgrimage Route, talk by Dyfrig Lloyd

Pavilion, 11.50am: Scripture Recitation Competition (open)

Pavilion, 12.05pm, Hymn Singing Competition

Y Babell Lên (Literary Pavilion), 9.00am: Scripture Recitation Competition (open)

Y Babell Lên (Literary Pavilion), 11.30am: The Hywel Teifi Memorial Lecture – From the Rhondda to Canaan, delivered by Daniel G Williams

Encore Pavilion, 9am: Hymn Singing Competition

Science and Technology, 12.30pm: Talk on Exploring the Climate Crisis

St Dyfrig’s Church Treforest, 6.00pm: Eisteddfod Mass, presided by Bishop Edwin Regan

Friday 09/08/24

Kitchen managed by Tim and Helen Williams

Volunteers: Caerphilly Churches (Eirian Dafydd)

St Catherine’s Church, 1.00pm: Worship led by Meilyr Rees, Coedpenmaen Church

St Catherine’s Church, 1.30pm: A Rocha Eco Church Scheme, session by Delyth Higgins

Pabell Cymdeithasau 1 (Societies Pavilion 2), 3.00pm: Launch of Gofal ein Gwinllan Volume 2 by the Church in Wales

Saturday 10/08/24

Kitchen managed by Tim and Helen Williams

Volunteers: Richard and Felicity

St Catherine’s Church, 1.00pm: worship led by Dyfrig Lloyd and the Church in Wales

Y Babell Lên (Literary Pavilion), 4.30pm: Lleuwen Steffan and Band Tafod Arian looking at old hymns and astonishing sermons

Encore Pavilion, 12.00pm: Hymn Tune Competition to words by Gwynfor Dafydd